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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others.

Despite Lego and Star Wars hogging the headlines when it comes to high prices paid out recently by toy collectors, the ‘old school’ has struck back to land a blow for more venerable brands.

Antiquities looted from archaeological sites in Libya have been seized in Spain by police and two art dealers have been arrested.

Auction house Sotheby’s has launched a share scheme for employees that it says will benefit 98% of its staff.

A set of Beatles autographs goes under the hammer in the Cotswolds next month.

A cache of early LS Lowry (1887-1976) drawings from a deceased estate in Cheshire is estimated to sell for a combined £150,000 at Bentleys Fine Art Auctioneers in Cranbrook, Kent.

A once-banned Georgian manual containing the ‘secrets of sex’ flew past its estimate in a Derbyshire auction yesterday.

The paintings, antiques, sculptures and objets d’art of the late Saudi Arabian billionaire Walid Juffali (1955-2016) sold out at Bonhams in a white-glove sale.

The sale of a well-known collection of Star Wars production figures has set new price levels at a Pennsylvania auction.

A charitable trust has bought two pairs of 18th century French chairs from National Galleries of Scotland for a museum in Chester.

An Old Master portrait missing for nearly 80 years has been returned to the heirs of Dutch banker and art collector Fritz Gutmann. They now plan to auction the picture with an estimate of $1m-2m.

Ronald Phillips will host an exhibition of Chippendale furniture at its Bruton Street gallery and at Masterpiece London to mark the tercentenary of his birth.